Very sweet sounding story from North Carolina. After a breakthrough surgery. A three year old boy can hear his mom and dad and everything else around him for the first time in his life and he -- youth. Today. How amazing. Is that Grayson -- Was born death he became the first child now in the United States. To have what's called an auditory brain stem implant. It's a microchip it's implanted in the brain that processes sounds. Undergo follow speech and hearing therapy at the university of north Carolina at chapel hill hospital.

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Hearing for the First Time

Three-year-old boy is able to hear thanks to a remarkable new procedure.

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